People read the whole interview "Xabi Alonso is a great and very important player for us, but we're not going to cry about his yellow card. We're solid in midfield. Granero and Lass can easily play with Khedira and Nuri, whose spirits we're trying to raise. Alonso will rest and will be able to play all league games. He will be fit to the end." This is just to finish what was said from Real Madrid's official website, check yourself for the full interview

Granero to replace, he is the natural replacement, other than Nuricorn, and he has been playing superbly whenever called upon, Lass-Khedira will give us no creativity whatsoever and Granero is always full of running

Lass and Granero are clearly ahead of Sahin now. He wouldn't suddenly start after not having any minutes at all since forever. At least now with less midfield options there's a chance he'd actually play even though as sub, he's already made a progress by making it to the bench in last match. He needs to wait until the others fail unfortunately.